Charlie Haden Quotes

You can't be at your full creative power if you are sedated.

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• One can quite understand vegetarianism. One can quite understand meat-eating. But it is difficult to understand why a person who is a flesh-eater should object to one kind of flesh, namely cow's flesh. This is an anomaly which call for explanation.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Why
  • Understand
  • Difficult

• I think there's a lot of naivete and hubris within our mix of personalities. That's probably our worst crime. I keep wondering what a 'mature' record means.

  

  Ian Williams Battles
  • Think
  • Crime
  • Worst

• Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu - that we all become people through other people, and that we cannot be fully human alone, we could learn a lot. There'd be less hatred and more harmony.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • People
  • Alone
  • Learn

• But I'm not objective when I'm acting.

  

  Laura Innes
  • Acting
  • Objective

• As far back as I can remember though, I always loved performing.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Remember
  • Always
  • Loved

• It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.

  

  O. Henry
  • New
  • New York
  • Old

• Prayer is man's greatest power!

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Power
  • Man
  • Prayer

• I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Love
  • She
  • Friend

• Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Think
  • Man
  • Drink

• We have to tell people who need help that it's OK to ask for it.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • People
  • Help
  • Need

• I am myself of a mixed background.

  

  Quiara Alegria Hudes
  • Background

• Confining marine animals to tanks and separating them from their families and their natural surroundings, just so people can watch them swim in endless circles, teaches us far more about humans than it does about animals - and the lesson is not a flattering one.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • People
  • Animals
  • Marine

• I love and really respect strong women. I'm obsessed with Scarlett Johansson and Drew Barrymore and Penelope Cruz. They are just really incredibly strong-willed, intelligent females in the industry.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Women
  • Love
  • Strong

• At the time of Woodstock, I was just 13, but I used to see these exotic hippy creatures and I did look on with envy. How could you not? In an ideal world, I would have loved to have been a hippy - but I might have been a bit strait-laced. It was my fantasy.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Time
  • World
  • Envy

• I try to get them to remember that they're not just athletes, but student-athletes.

  

  Earl Campbell
  • Remember
  • Try
  • Just

• It would be ridiculous to say I don't want to sell records, but I trust my taste.

  

  Thebe Neruda Kgositsile
  • Want
  • Trust
  • Ridiculous

• I had the longest, biggest bowl cut. It looked like I had a perfectly straightened mop on the top of my head.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Like
  • Head
  • Top

• As I passed along the side walls of Westminster Abbey, I hardly saw any thing but marble monuments of great admirals, but which were all too much loaded with finery and ornaments, to make on me at least, the intended impression.

  

  Karl Philipp Moritz
  • Me
  • Impression
  • Ornaments

• The gospel is a reasonable system, and it appeals to men's understanding; it is a matter for thought and consideration, and it appeals to the conscience and reflecting powers.

  

  Charles Spurgeon
  • Men
  • Understanding

• The right and the physical power of the people to resist injustice, are really the only securities that any people ever can have for their liberties. Practically no government knows any limit to its power but the endurance of the people.

  

  Lysander Spooner
  • People
  • Power
  • Endurance

• Somehow we just don't make the same boisterous fun of Holy Week that we do of Christmas. No one plans to have a holly, jolly Easter.

  

  Frederica Mathewes-Green
  • Fun
  • Christmas
  • Easter

• Sadism is plainly connected with the need for self-assertion. At the same time it cannot be separated from the idea of defeat. A sadist is a man, who, in some sense, has his back to the wall. Nothing is further from sadism, for example, than the cheerful, optimistic mentality of a Shaw or Wells.

  

  Colin Wilson
  • Time
  • Wall
  • Optimistic

• I found that if I got up on the stage to entertain the troops I could make them shut up and look.

  

  Kenneth Williams
  • Up

• You can't be at your full creative power if you are sedated.

  

  Charlie Haden
  • Power